Via Dead Men Left, I see Tim has a delicious scoop - namely some piccies of Slavoj Zizek's wedding. I can't be the only one to think that Zizek looks decidedly mobbish in his apparel and general demeanour.

A couple of other links while I'm at it. DML picks up a link to a new site called Islamophobia Watch. It certainly appears to be picking on all the right people, and has wound up some wierdo pro-war site run by obsessive-compulsive 'Stopper'-haters.

I received a note in my inbox telling me that protests were planned for the mass murderer Narendra Modi's visit to the UK this Saturday. The fear of that has caused Modi to call off his visit . Recently, Modi was unable to make a visit to the US after protests led to his visa being revoked. He was to visit America on the invitation of the Asian American Hotel Owners Association, where he was to be "honoured".

Modi had connived in and encouraged a state-wide pogrom against Muslims in Gujarat, leaving about 2000 dead and 200,000 without homes. Sexual violence against its victims was also encouraged, and Modi along with his right-wing allies in the BJP and VHP have systematically blocked every effort to prosecute those responsible or investigate what happened.

A good article here discusses the prospects for the Latin American New Left in light of the 'revolution' in Venezuela.

Antiwar.blog knew it yesterday, and today the Washington Post reports on it. That story about 'Iraqi security forces' killing 84 insurgents was bullshit.

The hallowed reputation of UN peacekeepers is now in tatters after it emerges that they have been raping and molesting in Bosnia, Kosovo, the DRC - humanitarian intervention just ain't what it used to be.

And finally, a good analysis of the amazing uprising in Kyrgyzstan here. How long before the State Department says "we did it" and brands it the "Ash Revolution" or some stupid bloody thing?